and corruption. East Germany’s early experience of rapid wage and income, but not productivity, convergence raised fears …, the prospects for East German convergence are now more promising. …

This paper illustrates how convergence equations can be used to analyse the dynamics of the income distribution, thus … allowing for the main convergence mechanisms identified in the literature. The estimated model and the underlying data are then … used in a convergence accounting exercise, which yields quantitative estimates of the contribution of each of these …

The concepts of s-convergence, absolute b-convergence and conditional b-convergence are discussed in this paper. The …. Except for the large cross section of countries, all data sets display strong evidence of s-convergence and absolute b-convergence …. The cross section of countries exhibits s-divergence and conditional b-convergence. The speed of conditional convergence …

study of the convergence hypothesis. The data show limited intra-distribution mobility in incomes across economies and thus …, little convergence. The analysis uncovers some `convergence club'-like dynamics, and reveals the wide diversity in growth …

the union again later, convergence stops for a while after the high inflation country has joined. With irreversible …

This paper offers new tests of the `convergence hypothesis'. It first analyses the pattern of growth of measured inputs … is led to reject the convergence theory. In order to understand what lies at the heart of this discrepancy, the paper … school enrolments (or the UN-conditional convergence of the stock of measured inputs would not hold), but because the law of …

Recent estimates of convergence equations using panel data techniques tend to produce theoretically unpalatable results … Spanish regions, it is found that explicitly allowing for short-term noise reduces the estimated convergence rate to values …

The neoclassical growth model accords with empirical evidence on convergence if capital is viewed broadly to include … convergence than those observed empirically, however. We show that the open economy model conforms with the evidence if an economy …

capacity'). In this paper we document that there has been convergence of TFP within a panel of industries across thirteen OECD …